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Aging Successfully
How to Enjoy, Not Just Endure, the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Aging Successfully offers suggestions for greater satisfaction and happiness for people over age fifty. It raises spiritual and emotional issues such as how to deal with depression and gives specific action steps. This book is packed full of practical help; it is a road map for aging, especially during...
Insanity
God and the Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Have you seen such men--peculiar, raving, foam-mouthed, and straitjacketed--throwing themselves mercilessly at white padded walls . . . ? Such men are said to be insane. But there is more to insanity than the images depicted in film and planted in our minds by popular media. Insanity is a condition...
Leaving Dirt Place
Love as an Apologetic for Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Accosted by hatred and living out a dismal existence in Dirt Place, we humans have tried and failed to find the source of love. Many philosophies of love have proved powerless in satisfying our need for this pure and true thing. One after another, the world's religions fail to illuminate its reality...
The Roots that Clutch
Letters on the Origins of Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Would Eve object to the presentation of her original sin in Genesis 3? Could Alexander Graham Bell possibly have foreseen the enslaving power of his great invention, the phone, over human beings today? In The Roots that Clutch, Thomas Esposito poses such questions directly by means of letters addressed...
by Vincent Peillon
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
24 décembre, 36 quai des Orfèvres. Dans la cour où la nuit tombe, seul le sapin de Noël tient droit. Le commissaire Bloom, lui, titube, comme le monde qui l’entoure.
Une bouteille de gin, un bon livre et des sonates de Bach sont les seuls compagnons qu’il désire pour ce réveillon. Mais...
A feu et à sang
De la guerre civile européenne 1914-1945
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2007
La première moitié du XXe siècle fut une époque de guerres, de destructions et de révolutions qui mirent l'Europe à feu et à sang. De l'explosion du vieux monde en 1914 au nouvel équilibre instauré en 1945, le continent connut des temps de catastrophe et de chaos.
Pour Enzo Traverso, la notion...
L'Afrique sans Africains
Le rêve blanc du continent noir
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1993
J'aime l'Afrique… Pendant plusieurs générations, en France, ce fut un credo banal : on aimait ce continent attachant, certes sauvage, mais peuplé de gens aimables. C'en est fini de ces ritournelles. Une époque est révolue. Désormais, l'Afrique est présentée comme un continent en perdition,...
by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The materials presented here are reflections on a variety of topics: a belief in God's suffering and the pastoral implications of this; Luther's theology of preaching; practical approaches to evangelistic preaching; pastoral advice on death and dying; apologetic preaching in a post-Christian culture...
Interpretation of Love
God’s Love and Ours
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
The ministry is more than preaching, but preaching is its priority. This conviction is one Dr. Ngien has lived and worked with. As a sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Commending and Living, and Giving Wings to the Soul, Interpretation of Love: God's Love and Ours is a third collection of sermons...
by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
A sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Living and Commendation, Giving Wings to the Soul is the compilation of Dr. Ngien's sermons or speeches, devotional and theological reflections. The materials continue to provide Bible-based, thought-provoking theological, spiritual, and pastoral insights to issues...
Faith-Based Education That Constructs
A Creative Dialogue between Contructivism and Faith-Based Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Constructivism is everywhere. It is a hot issue at this time in the field of philosophy, education, technology, and religion. However, can constructivism be an alternative approach in faith-based education? While some conclude that Jesus knew learning was an active knowledge-creating process, and...
Multiculturalism
A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Multiculturalism: A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community is an attempt to engage the Christian community on the ongoing discussion of cultural diversity and its implications for the church and the entire Christian community of the twenty-first century. Written for Christian schools and churches,...
Healing Church Strife in the New Testament and Today
Beyond Matthew 18:15-17
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the rich variety of conflict solutions that are described throughout the New Testament. Healing Church Strife explores options for our time, and the reader receives practical suggestions that are biblically based.
Journey Into an Interfaith World
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a World Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this comprehensive volume, Dr. Kenneth L. Vaux explores the shared theological ground of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-the common God, the common good, the common word, and the common work. Based on the premise that the three Abrahamic faiths are given by God for some purpose in God's universal...